Success Stories

Final Approach™ was used to design an ILS procedure for Runway 26 at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport for use by Porter Airlines. Given the environment with many obstructions along Toronto’s busy waterfront, an ILS procedure was not previously possible…

Cougar Helicopters, the major offshore oil-rig flight support organization on Canada’s East Coast, was looking for a way to improve the availability of an alternate airport to use for IFR operations. The existing procedure had relatively high minimums so that a more remote alternate was needed a high percentage of the time…

Air Navigation Data Equips Client Instrument Procedure Design Office STARS Air Ambulance has long been a client of Air Navigation Data. They operate from dozens of helipads at hospitals throughout Alberta and each one requires an up-to-date instrument procedure to ensure safe and reliable patient transport. Previously, Air Navigation Data has designed these procedures for STARS but now, as their area of responsibility has grown beyond Alberta to include Saskatchewan and Manitoba, STARS has decided to establish their own procedure design office. Air Navigation Data has provided STARS with all the software tools and data for the new office. Using Final Approach, STARS will be able to design and maintain their own instrument...

Air Navigation Data Receives First Approval to Use New “Cat I” LPV Approach Criteria The Services division of Air Navigation Data announced September 4, 2012 that it was the first company to receive approval to use the new Transport Canada GNSS RNAV criteria (TP308, Change 5.3). This means that customers of Air Navigation Data are able to take advantage of the lowest GNSS minima now available (200 ft Height Above TDZE) gaining greater poor weather capability. Porter Airlines, operating out of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, will the first to benefit. Air Navigation Data has designed a new RNAV (GNSS) to LPV minimums for Porter Airlines that provides them with fewer weather related...

First LPV Procedure for Rwy 08 at Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport Creating an approach to Runway 08 at Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport is difficult. The runway environment makes a traditional ILS installation impossible and the proximity of tall buildings along the waterfront limits many options. Using Final Approach®, Air Navigation Data was able to create an LPV procedure for Porter Airlines that is the first to be compliant with Transport Canada’s new criteria (TP308, Change 5.3). The minimums for the procedure of 250 feet height above touchdown are the best possible, given the absence of approach lighting, precluded by marine navigation zones. This procedure has been submitted and it is expected to be published...

STARS Air Ambulance and Its Critically-Ill Patients Benefit From Advanced Instrument Procedures STARS Air Ambulance, a Western Canada helicopter air ambulance operator, has over the past 9 years employed Air Navigation Data to design and maintain its instrument procedure inventory for all of the 36 hospital helipads that they use. This process ensures continuous operations in all but the worst weather conditions, greatly expanding their ability to transport critically ill patients reliably and...

Air Navigation Data can now reveal that it’s software, Final Approach, was a vital tool to support the Canadian Forces rapid response to the human suffering in Haiti following the recent devastating earthquake. Final Approach was used to rapidly develop instrument approach procedures for Jacmel airport where none existed before. This airport, undamaged in the quake, was previously a fair-weather only airport. The new instrument approach procedures permit the Canadian Forces CC-130 Hercules cargo aircraft and CH-146 Griffin helicopters to operate when the weather is less than ideal, allowing relief flights to continue in all but the worst weather. Download the Haiti Relief Support Press Release...